Monday, May 30, 2011

We caught up with Jaber, Espy and Graves painting a legal wall in beautiful Koreatown. This was a quick production taking a few hours to complete. Jaber and Graves on letters and Espy on the character.Jaber + Espy + Graves

Los Angeles has many graffiti yards. Most are tucked away without many in the public knowing about them. We usually document street level graffiti, but we have checked out a few yards lately. More pictures coming soon.Best WE CDP

Friday, May 20, 2011

Los Angeles based CBS crew once again comes through with a large graffiti production focusing on a single theme. It builds on the Los Angeles Times advertisements showing ink splatter. But instead of Los Angeles Times, the wall depicts the crimes of Los Angeles. Check out our detailed coverage of this wall.Los Angeles Crimes - CBS Crew

Thursday, May 19, 2011

This is part 2 of our coverage of the opening night of Street Cred - Graffiti Art From Concrete to Canvas. The show featured over 30 Los Angeles based graffiti artists doing museum quality work. Every piece in the exhibit featured a photograph by Steve Grody showing the artist's street work alongside with the work for the show. Be sure to check out part 1 as well.Risk

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

On Saturday, May 14, 2011 we attended the opening night of Street Cred - Graffiti Art From Concrete To Canvas. The exhibit was held at the Pasadena Museum of California Art.

The hugely successful exhibit was over a year in the making. It was curated by Steve Grody, author of Graffiti LA and PMCA Exhibition Manager Shirlae Cheng-Lifshin. The show featured over 30 Los Angeles based graffiti artists doing museum quality work. Every piece in the exhibit featured a photograph by Steve Grody showing the artist's street work alongside with the work for the show. The show runs until September 4, 2011.

We had the fortune to be able to interview Steve Grody about the exhibit. We will post the interview next week. Stay tuned forpart 2 of the pictures.Pasadena Museum of California Art - Street Cred

Sunday, May 15, 2011

Filmed in the city of Los Angeles, Dcypher from New Zealand and Putos from Australia recreate the classic Rampage video game. Watch as the two graffiti artists masterfully paint and portray the mayhem caused by these monsters as they tear apart the city. Update:29 pictures from the video shootRampage in LA - Dcypher Vs Putos - Graffiti Video

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Here are a new set of rooftops from Los Angeles. Once again they are all running right now. Rooftops are our favorite. Toys are usually scared to diss it and the spots are usually very visible to cars and pedestrians.Augor MSK + Erie + Bonks AL OTR

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Check out this giant wall painted in honor of Tempt One. Many of Los Angeles' heavy hitter graffiti writers contributed to this wall. Also, some out-of-towners, including Vogue, Estria and Mare 139 contributed as well.

Monday, May 9, 2011

Last Saturday on May 7, 2011, we stopped by Hold Up Art gallery in Little Tokyo, a few hours before the opening night of Hi-Graff. Eye One and Cache were finishing up their pieces outside of the gallery. Huge thanks to Bryan for letting us check out the gallery before it opened. It was a very unique set up. The Graffiti artists painted directly onto the walls of the gallery. Professional prints were made from each painting and were available for purchase.

Check out old school LA graffiti writers, Wisk, Ser, Prime, Chubbs bombing the MOCA wall at the Art in the Streets show in Los Angeles. This is before Eight (Charlie), Slick and Mear painted on the wall.

Friday, May 6, 2011

There has been lots of positive and also negative things said about the Art in the Streets exhibit at MOCA in Los Angeles. We are not here to judge. This is one of our favorite installations at the museum. It is not complete, but manages to show many of the heavy hitters and influencing members of Los Angeles graffiti.

We took a bunch of close up pictures trying to highlight all the graffiti writers that hit this wall. Our favorite of course is the Oiler tag and throw up. For those that don't know, Oiler owned the streets of Los Angeles in the early 90s. Bus bombing, freeways, heavens, Oiler was up from the valley to East LA. It is also nice to see Wisk and Ser being on this wall. They were the early pioneers of Los Angeles freeway graffiti.Wisk BC + Haeler + Slick K2S + Ozie + Ayer + Use + Frame + WC

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

This wall was painted in December of 2010. Every time I went back to take a picture of the final piece, it was always blocked by a car. A few weeks ago was my lucky day. The wall had no cars blocking it.Sram CBS WAI + Kym CBS (Kym finishing up the dog)

The first time I saw an LOD tag was probably around 1989 by Sleez and Chaka. I also saw SK8 CBS LOD tags in the early nineties. Fast forward 20 years. Here are some recent works done by members of LOD crew.Sleez LOD OTR 2011